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Settlement in Cumbria, England · United Kingdom

Brackenthwaite, Westward

Brackenthwaite is a settlement situated some 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of the town of Wigton in the English county of Cumbria.

The place

Brackenthwaite is a settlement situated some 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of the town of Wigton in the English county of Cumbria. It should not be confused with the identically named settlement of Brackenthwaite that is situated some 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Cockermouth in the same county.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Brackenthwaite, Westward

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 94 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 122 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 127 km
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Brackenthwaite, Westward
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £14–18
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Brackenthwaite, Westward
    131 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · £19–25
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Brackenthwaite, Westward
    150 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Brackenthwaite, Westward

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brackenthwaite, Westward. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA75 runs from Stranraer (for the Belfast and Larne ferries) via Dumfries.
  • Get inBuses no longer run along the Solway coast from Stranraer ferry port, you have to double back via Glasgow, Borders Bus X95 runs from Edinburgh along A7 via Galashiels, Selkirk, Hawick and Longtown.

From Wikivoyage: Carlisle, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    155 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    188 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    216 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    297 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    314 km

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